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~i, ~4' J LAND USE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII - ~ ~ 70o Bishop Street, Ste. 1928 ~ - _ - Honolulu, Hawaii g6A~3 Phone 5zt-4717 Fax 536-ot32 May 16, zoos - The Honorable Pete Hoffmann, Chair & Presiding Officer Hawaii County Council 333 Kilauea Avenue (Ben Franklin Building) 2°a Floor, Council Room Hilo, HI 96~zo By Facsimile: (808) 961-8~4z Dear Chair Hoffmann: RE: An Ordinance Amending Chapter 25, Article 2, Division 4, Hawaii County Code ><98g (2005 Edition) By Adding A New Section Related to Concurrency Conditions My name is Dave Arakawa, Executive Director of the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii ("LURF"), testifying in opposition to Bill 318, which would add a new section to the Hawaii County Code related to Concurrency Conditions because this bill would just simply shifting the burden for securing infrastructure capacity From the County (who is responsible for providing such services) to the applicants for new developments. We respectfully urge the City Council to consider other creative and realistic alternatives to provide the necessary infrastructure to accommodate future growth. LURF is a private, non-profit research and trade association whose members include major Hawaii landowners, developers and a utility company. One of LURF's missions is to advocate for reasonable and rational land use planning, legislation and regulations affecting common problems in Hawaii. LURF participated in the County of Hawaii's Impact Fee Study. That process has confirmed that funding of infrastructure is primarily done through grants, government bonds, aide packages, various sources of tax revenues (i.e. real property tax, vehicle weight tax, fuel tax, etc.) and other fees, and that impact fees sometimes provide another alternative source of funding for basic infrastructure. Through this process, we have found that impact fees need to be viewed as one element in a range of various municipal financing options to fund basic infrastructure. For example, impact fees are generally used to mitigate impacts from a proposed new developments based on the existing level of service of the infrastructure. Impact fees cannot be used to address deficiencies in existing level of service. Existing Comm. No. 3 a 7a 7 . i Ref. To: ~J,~.~. Ref. seta mNI 1~----"